How To: Different naming of phpmyadmin 4

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So, I rename my phpmyadmin on my servers to limit scans/hacks. Here's what I did to accomplish it. May help someone else:

1. Create a scripts directory somewhere - ie. /scripts/
2. vi (or) nano phpmyadmin.sh
3. Paste this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
VERSION=`cat /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/versions.txt | grep 'phpmyadmin4' | cut -d ':' -f 2`
/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build update_data
/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build phpmyadmin
sleep 2
rm -R /var/www/html/[COLOR=red][B]newname[/B]-old[/COLOR]/
mv /var/www/html/[COLOR=red][B]newname[/B][/COLOR]/ /var/www/html/[B]newname[/B]-old/
mv /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin-$VERSION/ /var/www/html/[COLOR=red][B]newname[/B][/COLOR]/
rm /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin
change newname to any name you want phpmyadmin to be renamed to. I backup my old installation (hence the -old) just in case;
4. chmod 755 phpmyadmin.sh
5. cd /scripts/
6. ./phpmyadmin.sh
 
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